Animation Time! - Catfish Rig

Today's Inspiration:
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

- John Singer Sargent
http://jssgallery.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Singer_Sargent

Program - Maya 2014
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Rig - Catfish
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/fish-rigs-25-rigs-in-total-final-version

Animator's Bibles:
Character Animation Crash Course
Animator's Survival Kit
Illusion of Life
12 Principles of Animation
Drawn to Life

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Rubix Cube - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Rubix Cube Rig.
Part 1- Looks down and side to side, shakes head
Part 2 - squashes and anticipates the jump, lifts up spins around
Part 3 - Looks down, up, then back down, splats down with a little bounce, looks happily back forward

Animation Time! - Rubix Cube Rig

Today's Inspiration:

I find, and tell myself over and over again that every man has to be himself - but what a hard thing that is to be!

- Edwin Austin Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Austin_Abbey

Program - Maya 2014
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Rig - Rubix Cube
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/rubix-cube-rig

Animator's Bibles:
Character Animation Crash Course
Animator's Survival Kit
Illusion of Life
12 Principles of Animation
Drawn to Life

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Billy Barker - Animation Time!

Today's Animation Time features the Billy Barker Rig.
Head - focused forward light side to side tilt
Chest - puffed out, light compress and twist side to side
Hips - medium bounce, rotate to offset the chest
Legs - low medium steps
Feet - drag back on the passing position, land with a little overlap in the toes
Arms - light swings, left arm coils back with two quick strikes
Hands - overlap and drag from the swing and strike of the arms and forearms
Ears - light bounce and flop
Tail - overlaps and drags from the sway of the hips with a little extra flop

Animation Time! - Billy Barker Rig

Today's Inspiration:
art is the most revealing manifestation of human activities and that it is the one that will most easily give us a clue to the nature of man and to his outlook upon the world

- Edmund Dulac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dulac
http://dulac.artpassions.net/

Program - Maya 2014
http://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

Rig - Billy Barker
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/character-rigs/c/billy-barker

Animator's Bibles:
Character Animation Crash Course
Animator's Survival Kit
Illusion of Life
12 Principles of Animation
Drawn to Life

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